Week in Review: 11/22 - 11/27

Our Top Stories This Week:

• "Milk" Movie Review
• Thankful at Thanksgiving
• Florida Adoption Ban Struck Down
• Michael Phelps Graces Cover of 2008 GQ Men of the Year Issue
• Britney's new album: Listen and Review!

Gay.com

• California to investigate Mormon aid to Prop. 8 effort
• Indonesian province likely to microchip HIV patients
• Gay panic or sheik-down: Spurned Emirati VIP accused in assault 
• WHO mathematicians: AIDS could be gone in 10 years

Hot Topics

• Cleve Jones gives us "MILK" dish
• Great Prop 8 Protest Video!
• Mark Bingham's mom vs. the terrorists
• Thankful in Florida: Adoption ban struck down
• Prop. 8 support fells another entertainment figure
• No time for civil rights?

Entertainment

• Does Lance Bass Have A Shot At Becoming "Dancing With The Stars" Champ?
• Daniel Radcliffe Bares All On "Inside The Actors Studio"
• Kathy Griffin Commits To A Fifth Season Of "D-List"
• It's time to Rock the Folk OUT
• BLOWOFF Hits San Francisco
• Manhandled by a Boy
• Audience can barely keep eyes open for AMAs
• How to Upstage Beyonce

Sports, Health & Fitness

• Bonds vs. Vick: Who's The Bigger Ass?
• Myron Rolle: Student Athlete
• Trek Introduces Chainless Bikes!
• NFL: MVP Race Down to Favre, Warner
• Oh, Atlanta!
• Tennis: Spain Upsets Argentina, Captures Third Davis Cup Championship

Travel

• Off the beaten path: Unique NYC holiday shops
• Levi's guide to Phoenix
• Zagat's new guides to US hotels, European dining
• Ski guide to Mount Bachelor, Oregon

Style & Living

• In the Navy: Cooking for 4,400 mouths
• Liar, liar, pants on fire!
• Farewell to the Yugo
• Naomi Campbell ready for retrospective show
• Move over, Mojito!
• The Juice on Gin
• Infusions are easy!
• Vodka Myths and Mysteries
• Tequila and Margaritas 101

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Comments

[Brittany]

Gays r the MINORITY not majority.... Get used to it stop hating on Christians because christianity is the worlds leading religion however mormans catholics or Islam don't care about gays eithers not to mention all the athiest who find you people disgusting at least Christians care about your salvation

[kyden]

I agree ... Nobody cares for gays rights some of them think we should move out and let the gays stay here newsflash darlings we are the majority and this country was founded on god so good luck on judgement day because your gna need it

[newsflash kyden]

We r the minority we are so small and insignificant that if one single group of religion said be gone or one group of people we would end.... Screw it vote yes to 8

[Wyatt1969again]

Fuck you and your antigay sentiment. It is you who are truly evil. And the world knows it. There is nothing worse than the ranting of some small banal rube of a group of 4-Square Southern Baptist – Evangelical new age hate filled self appointed Christians.

You are not Christians.

You are the enemy.

It is expected that you will show up here and demonstrate to us all both your ignorance and your very real threat to Gay Rights – also known as fucking fundamental human rights.

Again you seek to take the easy road out – not doing a thing for those who need it and instead listening to – whether you like it or not – your own minority of bigoted cowards who have you so caught up in the fear of a Gay person with truly equal rights – that you can no longer see your own soul.

You can no longer see what is right or wrong.

That Jesus loved us all EQUALLY.

And if you want to lean on the Old Testament – you better be prepared to explain a great deal more than what you did or didn’t do to or for Gay people because I seriously doubt if that GOD would tolerate any of this shit from any of us.

Not you not me not any of us.

In the mean time –

I love you and I forgive you.

But I will not relent - just as no Gay or Lesbian or Bisexual or Transgendered person should.

[Wyatt1969again]

Why should anyone listen to me?

Well of course you will or will not.

But I hope you do.

I don’t mind that Gay or Lesbian or Bisexual or Transgendered people or any of our supporters – whomever they are – feel sometimes torn regarding just what to do about realities such as Prop 8.

This message is to anyone who doubts that Gays or Lesbians or Bisexuals or Transgendered people are entitled to the right to marry.

(Briefly – as an aside – I try not to use the acronym GLB&TG if at all possible because I am not an acronym – I am a human – a person – an American – not 5 tidy little letters wrapped around an ampersand).

When I first met my husband – I had no idea he would mean anything to me. If I remember correctly – he was visiting a friend of both or ours at the time and he was not so impressive.

As a matter of fact – I think he was drunk the night I first saw him – and that really does look ugly when all else doesn’t.

Still – he was in town for 5 days and just like in the movies – I think it was actually day 4 – a group of us went to the park to play football – of all things.

During this time I got to see how strong he was – how funny he could be – and I think he must have been noticing me. Latter that night – we talked about quite a bit late into the night and I noticed – or at least I think this – he was somehow trying to impress me. If anyone of you has ever seen this kind of thing then you know just how flattering it is – especially when it becomes obvious that “He” or perhaps “She” has abandoned reason and is now puffing up like a peacock.

You know it when you see it.

I remember being in my friend Maxine’s back yard. Josh and I were sitting there – alone – and for some reason we were both quiet. Probably intoxicated by lust and enamor.

Josh got up and said to me, “You wanna see something?” And I said, “Sure”!

He walked over to a tree with a pinecone hanging off a limb and said – watch this – actually I think he first said – see this pinecone?

I swear this is true – that “bad ass” leaped up like some kind of ninja and spun around and kicked the pinecone – which had to be at least as far off the ground as he was tall (6’4) – off the tree and right out of the yard – basically it sounded like a wiffle ball being smacked.

And yes I laughed because I knew he liked me then – I had not one doubt.

So I said to him, “What are you some kind of fucking Super Hero?”

And he walked over to me and actually looked me in the eye and said, “Some people might say that.”

When he finally got down on one knee and took my hand and put a ring on my finger he told me I will love you forever. I believed him – and I still do.

I didn’t need a piece of paper or some formal registration to recognize anything.

But when he died – so far away from home – I was not allowed to even know. No one called me. No one came to my home with good or bad news for quite some time. I have only met women who’ve been in this situation. When we talked about how it feels – some of them told me that they knew “He” was gone – they didn’t know how – but they knew.

But they didn’t wait as long as I did. They had the formally recognized right to know what happened to their husband.

I did not.

Like I’ve said before – am I angry? Yes. But I do have a reason. So don’t any of you expect me to agree to disagree with you because you have altogether discounted the value of what I know was true Love.